After drug-maker Biocon's head Kiran Mazumdar Shaw tweeted why Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced e-cigarette ban instead of Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Sitharaman replied that Vardhan was out of India. On Shaw's remark that Sitharaman should announce fiscal measures, she stated, "As Finance Minister...I've been...regularly speaking about measures...[taken] on matters of economy."